Graphix GN Guide (pdf)

And that’s the end of Act 3! Excting stuff. Don’t worry, the next two acts have a lot more action. And characters.

Bit of a transition page next next week and then I’m going to take a quick week off. I’ve unfortunately exhausted the enjoyable buffer I’ve had saved up for this comic and I need to get caught back up.

Would the vapors coming from the rock indicate perhaps a heating of the mass? While a large rock may not be adversely affected by dissipating a given amount of energy into it, a smaller mass (such as a body) would suffer worse effects from the same amount of energy. She might have seen more impressive results if she’d chosen a smaller target for testing the raygun.

She should have aimed at the narrow part of the rock. With less room for the heat to propagate (assuming that rock has better thermal conductivity than air), the energy would have been less dispersed and the rock would have been heated more, maybe to the point of melting or fracturing. The large mass of the rock above would have helped amplify the effect of any damage to the integrity of the structure at that narrow point, increasing the chance of obtaining spectacular effects.